Quotes about Values
Previous civilizations have been overthrown from without by the incursion of barbarian hordes. Christendom has dreamed up its own dissolution in the minds of its own intellectual elite. Our barbarians are home products, indoctrinated at the public expense, urged on by the media systematically stage by stage, dismantling Christendom, depreciating and deprecating all its values.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Another area of the moral and spiritual decline of Christendom is the abandonment of Christian mores. The movement away from Christian moral standards has not meant moving to an alternative humanistic system of moral standards as was anticipated, but moving into a moral vacuum, especially in the areas of eroticism.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.
— Robin Sharma
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and contribution.
— Stephen Covey
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.
— Herbert Hoover
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
— CS Lewis
Practicing what you preach is the world's most eloquent sermon.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
This war is being fought between fanatics convinced that their ends sanctify all means, and everyone else - all those who hold that life is an end and not a means. It is a struggle between people who believe that justice, whatever that term may mean to them, is more important than life, and those who maintain that life takes precedence over other values.
— Amos Oz
Being conformist and respectful as I was of the grown-up world and its prevailing values, and having no brothers or sisters or friends to counterbalance the personality cult that surrounded me, I had no alternative but to concur, humbly but thoroughly, with the grown-ups' opinion of me.
— Amos Oz
All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
— Anais Nin
How different our standard is from Christ's. We ask how much a man gives. Christ asks how much he keeps.
— Andrew Murray